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The first time I didn’t know. I thought it was a game. I was chasing butterflies, I love them to death. My mom had taught me to eat it. We went hunting all day, her and I, then at night we had a butterfly salad. Well, dietary. My mother was not very carnivorous, she preferred vegetables or light poultry meats… Catching tiny creatures that hover around you is a lot of fun. If it was the season, we also put two mushrooms aside. But I couldn’t find mushrooms; I went around and around, and yes, I looked for them, but I don’t know how I could never see them. In my opinion, fungi are hiding. Or he was distracted. I’m a very distracted bear, even if I don’t realize I am. Let’s say I also get distracted from my distraction. I think of something else, or there is always something that attracts me and takes me elsewhere, I don’t know, a whisper, a passing cloud …
Anyway, the first time you took me by surprise. If it was a game, I didn’t like it at all. He tied me up, excited, stunned. I don’t know what you did to me, my head was spinning and I couldn’t get up anymore. As soon as I could, I left. Sorry, but you can’t lock me up. I don’t know if you imagine… If they lock you up in the house, if they tell you not to go out any more, not to walk, not to run, not to see friends, not to play in the trees… It’s called confinement, in English. Never heard?
I ran away every time you caught me. It wasn’t about running away, it was just that I had to go. An instinct, do you understand me?
But why are you so stuck with me? Don’t you have anything else to think about? Schools are about to start, for example, and I know that now it is a problem for you: the distance, the new benches with wheels, the masks. You have to defend your puppies, you want them to go and learn many things, but also to be safe. I understand it well, it is true. So why don’t you focus on your problems? Unemployment, layoffs, GDP that does not grow …
You have your life, I have mine. Do you think it’s easy to be the lonely bear that wanders through the woods always looking for food? Yes, because I also have to feed myself. And sometimes butterflies and mushrooms are not enough for me. Sometimes I go to their houses. Okay, not done. But if you leave the bins full of garbage … I feel the smell. The sense of smell is not a trivial matter, it cannot be ignored. I try to stay away, I know I scare you I’m big. If I stand up on my hind legs, I think I am six feet tall. And I am dark, I have a dark brown fur like the night. But you don’t have to stop at the appearance, the hair color …
Can’t we make sure that I live my life and you live yours? Humans and bears: they can coexist, right? For example, I don’t get you. It doesn’t even cross my mind, but it would take a while: I grab you by the neck and put you in a cage. Would you like it?
Let me go. It is useless if you surround me with 4-meter-high iron fences and electrified barriers. Bears are strong. With one leg we can lift posts and railings. We unhinge them from below. Forget this.
Now I am encased in a kind of tubular box, a cylinder that tastes like metal. What is a den, a doghouse? Or did I end up in the hospital? It’s too tight, I can’t even move a leg. And it’s dark, a terrifying darkness. I think you tried again. You caught me again. Why? Soon it is autumn. I was completing my fat supply in a month or two and was going to hibernate. I know a cave in the mountains. It’s cool, it’s good. I snuggled up there and slept all winter. What harm was he doing to you?
Also, there is one thing that I don’t understand. You endure them, you love them. The proof is that you give your puppies lots of teddy bears. Nothing else is born and then for years, all you do is fill them with teddy bears, bears like me … Your children hug us in their crib, they do not sleep without us. You also teach them the bear cartoons and they go crazy for the yogi bear, with his green cap and man’s tie. So why are you chasing us?
Cinema is not life, of course. But in the movies, in the stories you make up, life is as it should be. There are prisoners who escape from prison and you call them heroes. Think of the Count of Monte Cristo, Papillon… You called me M49 bear, and then Papillon. Well then. But my real name, the name my mom gave me when I was born, you don’t know. You didn’t even ask me. I do not forgive you The name is the first gift that life gives us …
You also called me “trouble bear.”
And this saddens me, more for you than for me. But what do you say, how do you talk? And what kind of people are you? Is freedom really a problem for you?
You also put a necklace on me. A strange necklace that sends signals. I know this is how you control me. That’s not good. I don’t feel like being watched, spying on me. They are not like you, who let you monitor yourself with your mobile … They steal your data, they know everything about you: your position, your tastes, the products you use. You must stop and learn to untie yourself. You should learn to be free instead of imprisoning us. If you want I will show you how to do it. You cannot live with a necklace. Sorry if I took it off, at one point my neck itched, an infinite annoyance. I bit it.
Take, if you set me free I’ll teach you to gnaw necklaces.
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